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"The market has fully embraced virtualization as a key transformative technology at the heart of the next era of computing," said Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware. "With vSphere 5 and our cloud infrastructure suite, VMware is helping customers accelerate towards more efficient and automated cloud infrastructure, redefining how resources are managed and secured, and ultimately, driving a more productive relationship between IT and the businesses they serve."
The company enhanced VMware vSphere 5 with 200 new capabilities. VMware vSphere 5 will support virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. These VMs will be able to process in excess of 1 million I/O operations per second, which will far surpass the requirements of even the most resource-intensive applications.
VMware vSphere 5 will also introduce three new flagship features that extend the platform's data centre resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated "set it and forget it" approach to managing data centre resources, including server deployment and storage management, claims the company.
VMware vSphere 5's new Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS features can save a customer with a 1,000-VM environment up to a full year of administrator time,further claims the company.
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, a new software product for SMBs, can assure bring business continuity and automated resource management capabilities of VMware vSphere without the cost and complexity of shared storage, says the company.
The new VMware vSphere Storage Appliance can transform server internal storage into shared pools of storage enabling SMB customers to take full advantage of the unique business continuity and automation capabilities of VMware vSphere, including High Availability, vMotion, and Distributed Resource Scheduler, says the company.
With VMware vSphere 5, VMware is evolving the product's licensing to lay the foundation for customers to adopt a more "cloud-like" IT cost model based on consumption and value rather than physical components and capacity.
VMware vSphere 5 will continue to be licensed per processor (CPU), however, VMware is eliminating the current, restrictive physical entitlements of CPU cores and physical RAM per server and replacing them with a single, virtualization-based entitlement of pooled virtual memory, or vRAM.
Pooled vRAM is the total amount of memory configured to all VMs in a customer's environment. Each VMware vSphere 5 CPU license will entitle the purchaser to a specific amount of vRAM, which can be pooled across the entire vSphere environment to enable a true cloud or utility based IT consumption model.
With it VMware is extending the concept of pooling and because VMware vSphere 5 is still licensed on a per-CPU basis, customers can continue leaveraging established purchasing, deployment and license-management processes.
VMware vSphere 5 together with the updated cloud infrastructure suite is expected to be available in Q3 2011.